[blml] ...have we really come to this??? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Grattan Endicott:

[snip]

>>        Mike Amos comments, more recently, that
>>"Having said that, no one has attended to the ruling itself.
>>I had always understood that if we decided to disallow
>>a call for UI reasons then that call was not included in the
>>weightings.  It is certainly illegal in England "  In EBL and
>>WBF tournaments the English inhibition does not apply.
>>When the WBF Appeals Committee decided to allow of
>>weighted rulings there was a strong body of opinion that
>>equity requires that we allow the call a proportion of the
>>time if that was judged to be what would happen had
>>no irregularity occurred.
>>
>>                       ~ Grattan ~   +=+

Ton Kooijman:

>I don't know what the appeal committee of the WBF is doing. I
>am not even sure that that committee has the authority to
>allow weighted rulings. I remember that the Laws Committee has
>talked about the subject. And I can assure you that 'no strong
>body' has expressed its opinion that if a call is not accepted
>because it could have been made under the influence of UI, it
>could get a weight other then zero in the adjusted score.

Richard Hills:

Have we really come to this, that the WBF Appeals Committee has
allowed rulings which are _disallowed_ by the WBF Code of
Practice for Appeals Committees???

WBF Code of Practice, page 7:

"A player who, without design, makes unauthorized information
available to his partner does not commit an infraction of law
or propriety; it is the use of that information that is a
breach of the laws."

Richard Hills:

The "strong body of opinion" on the WBF Appeals Committee made a
basic error by assuming that it is _the hesitation_ which is
"the irregularity".  Since the WBF CoP states that it is _the
use of information_ which is "the irregularity", then it is
illegally contrary to the WBF CoP for the WBF AC to include the
disallowed call in the weightings.

:-(


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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